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  2. Vatican Museums - Wikipedia

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    The Vatican Museums (Italian: Musei Vaticani; Latin: Musea Vaticana) are the public museums of the Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries, including several of the most well-known Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in ...

  3. List of museums in Vatican City - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of museums in Vatican City. Museums in Vatican City. Museo del Tesoro di San Pietro; Vatican Museums. Gregoriano Etrusco Museum;

  4. Vatican Historical Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Vatican Historical Museum (Italian: Museo storico vaticano) is one of the sections of the Vatican Museums. It was founded in 1973 at the behest of Pope Paul VI, [1] and was initially hosted in environments under the Square Garden. In 1987 it was moved to the main floor of the Apostolic Palace of the Lateran and opened in March 1991.

  5. List of most-visited museums - Wikipedia

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    Musée du Louvre, Paris, France Vatican Museums, Vatican City, Rome National Museum of China, Beijing, China British Museum, London Natural History Museum, London Metropolitan Museum, New York City National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C., United States Tate Modern, London, England National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea ...

  6. Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Vatican Museums

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    The Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art is a collection of paintings, graphic art and sculptures in the Vatican Museums.. It occupies 55 rooms: the Borgia Apartment (apartment of Pope Alexander VI) on the first floor of the Apostolic Palace, the two floors of the Salette Borgia, a series of rooms below the Sistine Chapel, and a series of rooms on the ground floor.

  7. Tourism in Vatican City - Wikipedia

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    But since the unification of Italy in the mid-19th century, Vatican City is the only papal state that has survived. As of 1929, because of the Lateran Treaty , the Vatican is recognized as its own independent state, the smallest in the world in population and land size, [ 5 ] with a population of just over 800 people in July 2011. [ 6 ]

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